• Biography
• Current reasearch
• Publications
• Conference and media engagements
• Membership of professional associations

Matthew joined the Institute for the Study of the Americas as a postdoctoral research fellow in US politics. He is currently working on two projects. First, in ATLANTIC ARCHIVE: UK-US Relations in an Age of Global War 1939-1945 he is creating an online database on UK perspectives towards the US from 1914 to 1945. It will range from Foreign Office reports to newspaper articles and will include discussions of US economic, political and social/ cultural life. Second, in the Women and US Foreign Policy Interview Project he is interviewing people involved and affected by US foreign policy with particular attention being paid to women. These interviews will also be placed into an online repository.

Matthew previously was a lecturer in politics at De Montfort University, Oxford Brookes University and Cardiff University. He completed his Ph.D. on US democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan under Presidents Clinton and Bush at the University of Ulster. His MA was in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and his two undergraduate degrees were at the University of Kent and Bath Spa University.

Matthew's current research examines the impact of democracy promotion within US foreign policy and its role within the American Mission. It also considers the role of culture in contemporary democratisation strategies and examines the timescale for successful democratic consolidation. What role does or should the society play in determining whether it wants externally delivered democracy? He has finished writing a book based on these issues for Routledge, which will be published in 2011.

• Hill, Matthew Alan 'International actors and democratisation: can USAID deliver a democratic culture to Afghanistan?' International Relations 24, no. 2 (June 2010): 155-174.
• Hill, Matthew Alan 'Exploring USAID's democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan: A 'cookie-cutter approach'?'Democratization 17, no. 1 (February 2010): 98-124.
• Hill, Matthew Alan 'Democracy Promotion and Conflict-based Reconstruction: The United States and Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq' Democratization series, London: Routledge, 2011.

• June 2010 US Foreign Policy BISA working group and BAAS Postgraduate Conference (Leicester, UK) Organised a conference for postgraduates on US domestic and foreign policy and workshops on presentations and publications.
• September 17-18, 2009 US Foreign Policy BISA Annual Conference (Norwich, UK) Co-organised a panel on US democracy promotion and presented a paper entitled 'Can the democratic peace theory explain the inter-state peace between democratising states and democracies?'
• January 8-10, 2009 American Politics Group, PSA Annual Conference (Oxford, UK) Presented a paper on US democracy promotion: 'Comparative analysis of democracy promotion by USAID in Bosnia and Afghanistan: How important are contexts in designing a strategy?'
• November 27, 2008 Appearance on 'The Agenda' current affairs television programme (London, UK) Participated in a roundtable discussion chaired by Yvonne Ridley on the new US presidential administration's chances of promoting peace in the Muslim world. This programme aired on the Satellite Channel 'Press TV'
• October 25-26, 2008 'Interrogating Democracy in International Relations' MJIA Conference (London, UK) Presented a paper on US democracy promotion: 'Owning the democratic development of one's culture: The failure of US democracy promotion in Bosnia and Afghanistan to support, not direct, the transition to democracy'

• Associate status at the Higher Education Academy (AHEA)
• Member of the British International Studies Association (BISA), and its US Foreign Policy working group
• Member of the Political Studies Association (PSA), and its American Politics Group (APG) and Teaching and Learning Specialist Group